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Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

Well of course the optimal solution is the fastest possible and the ET4000 just happens to be about the most compatible too. I'd really like to try this beast in my setup. Any suggestions for a particular ET4000 card? Were they only made by Tseng or were they OEM:ed as well? Also, I suppose the 2 …

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

That's interesting 5u3. I'm mainly interested in the (486) Demo Scene too. I remember all the fuzz about ET4000 but I never got my hands on one of these cards back in the day. I'm still using my 15+ years old CL-5428 today :D Which delivers in about 90% of all demos from that time. At 320x200 (or so …

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

[...] So is the ET4000W32P king of VLB graphics or what? Interesting words there. From all what I've heard and read my assumptions for DOS performance, 640x480x256 and lower, would be: 1) Hercules 2) ATI or ARK based cards 3) S3 based cards 4) ET4000 But perhaps there's a big performance difference …

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

I was thinking about where I used to read benchies about DOS performance back in the '90s and remembered Sysopt.com. The Wayback machine found it for me. The benchmark section has a ton of DOS results. http://web.archive.org/web/19971211210207/http://www.sysopt.com/ Thank you! This is exactly what …

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

Hmm.. I'm not too sure about that. On most (or all?) 486 mother boards the system memory is 32 bit wide, while some later graphics cards had 64 bit memory, usually 2 Mb / 32 bit interleaved, with 64 bit host interface (VLB 2.0) allowing theoretically twice the system memory speed. On the CL-5428 VLB …

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

I dont know (my computer is doing 24.98 score in SPEEDSYS) but i figure it's pretty much standard for this card, that is CL-5428 VLB 1Mb. Cards that support interleave (with 2 Mb) should be faster though... in theory! Please try Benchmark with X-VESA (see above)

Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

Hmm... CL5428 VLB is doing about 12 Mb/s 32 bit writes in 8 bpp on my system (see below) according to X-VESA. What do you got on the ET4000 for instance? Curious to see some numbers for comparison. X-Vesa is available here: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=229

Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?

Which graphics card (or chip) was the fastest DOS (2D) performer ever? I reckon it must have been produced during the late VLB / early PCI -era around 1995. After this focus shifted to 3D performance. The reason I'm asking is that I'm building a "Demo/scene" 486 for running old DOS demos.

Re: Has anyone used a projector with a PC?

in Milliways
The problem I've had running old PC's (VGA), especially under DOS, on a projector is the awkward display timings and resolutions used by many games and applications. Modern projectors seem to have difficult handling these non-standard VGA modes. I don't know why TFT monitors seem to handle this …

Re: Disk access beyond 504 Mb in DOS 6.22 ?

in DOS
Then it's a BIOS/controller limitation. Are you sure? I mean BIOS detects the full disk (autodetect with c/h/s values... chs translated i presume). Im pretty sure the limitation is in DOS version X.XX < 7.0 only supporting 6 bit cylinder values? As long as the BIOS supports CHS translation (or …

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